PHP Web Login (encode)

Hi,

I'm new to this site and also not very familiar with progress.

I want to make a login page for a website that communicates with a progress database. This website preferably will be developed in PHP, otherwise .Net

Currently I have a working progress database that serves another application and the user table is populated with a user login and encrypted password. I have been told the password has been developed using Progress' ENCODE function.

Could the Encode function be used in a PHP script to validate a users login credentials?

Nope. The ENCODE function in the ABL ( formly the 4GL ) is proprietary and Progress did / does not reveal the logic. Plus, there is no DECODE pendant - it is one way and will always generate a string of 16 bytes.

Heavy Regards, RealHeavyDude.

I was hoping this wasn't the case.
That leaves me curious as to how the third party software I am using authenticates users to the database.
Surely there is a way around this.......

By third party software you mean software that accesses the Progress database via ODBC/JDBC?

ODBC/JDBC access via the SQL engine needs to have its own security set up and does not use _User.

You may have a look here:

http://knowledgebase.progress.com/articles/Article/20143

Heavy Regards, RealHeavyDude.

I don't know if this is what you are looking for and I might be misunderstanding of your requirements, but this might help:
https://github.com/pvginkel/ProgressEncode

Depending on how good you are at porting source code from C to PHP you could write your own ENCODE() function in PHP if that is what you are needing.

I actually recently came across Pieter's encode function and did translate it from C# to PHP. You can check it out at https://github.com/ExchangeCore/progressencode. Hope that helps!